“In their writing on education, Deci and Ryan proceed from the principle that humans are natural learners and children are born creative… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
Like children, the elders are a burden. But unlike children, they offer no hope or promise. They are a weight and an… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
To me, I don't even think I had a childhood. From when I was a baby to 12 years old, yes. But… — Deandre Ayton Copy Share Image
“Whenever doubts become a crime... whenever parents become afraid their children might turn them in; a country where the power of the… — Osiris Brackhaus Copy Share Image
“It's 5:22pm you're in the grocery checkout line. Your three-year-old is writhing on the floor, screaming, because you have refused to buy… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
Subduing and subdued, the petty strife, Which clouds the colour of domestic life; The sober comfort, all the peace which springs From… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
When I pick up one of my children and cuddle them, all the strain and stress of life temporarily disappears. There is… — Nicola Horlick Copy Share Image
“What an incredible witness it is to a lost and fearful society when the Christian acts like a child of God, living… — Lance Colkmire Copy Share Image
We cannot stand by and allow the future of our country to be undermined by the reality of American children going hungry!… — Donna Mills Copy Share Image
The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent… — Regina King Copy Share Image
It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
I beat my children daily, with a shoe, because I don't want them to grow up fairies. At 9 p.m. I promptly… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“To save one Jewish child, ten Poles and two Jews had to risk death. To betray that same child and the family… — Irena Sendler Copy Share Image
“Unless you become like little children . . .’? I think he said something of the kind. If you obey his words… — Petra Hammesfahr Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I thought of my Delta town as the center of the universe, but now I realize how… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
I learn more about how to run a set teaching six-year-olds. You go into a classroom as a teacher, and the most… — Matthew Porterfield Copy Share Image
I don't expect anything from you. One day you'll marry a different person, will make children and one day you'll completely forget… — Masha Prathibaya Copy Share Image
Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf.… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
Growing up on a farm in the '70s and '80s was just idyllic, you know, but I look at the difference in… — Sara Evans Copy Share Image
So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Whatever the joke is has to be funny, and not coming from a mean-spirited place. I think some things are totally off… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
I send out thoughts of love and peace and healing to the whole universe: to all trees and plants and growing things,… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure… — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work,… — Harriet Harman Copy Share Image
Learning first occurs as a part of emotional interactions; it involves the split-second initiatives that children take as they try to engage… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
It's what we all wanted when we were children- to be loved and accepted exactly as we were then, not when we… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
It's not easy to be a gay couple having a child, and we deal with those issues. For me, obviously as somebody… — Ryan T. Murphy Copy Share Image
Thou wayfaring Jesus - a pilgrim and stranger, Exiled from heaven by love at Thy birth: Exiled again from Thy rest in… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
You, the sons of the pioneers, if you are true to your ancestry, must make your lives as worthy as they made… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
These same people who accuse Planned Parenthood of 'targeting' African-American children, they care about you only while you're in the womb. The… — Gwen Moore Copy Share Image
I just remember when my first child was born I called the personnel office and I asked them about their leave policies.… — Carolyn Maloney Copy Share Image
“Candy felt helpless; no one seemed to understand why she was standing there. Children were colliding with her at hip level, and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“The wrath of God is never an evil wrath. God gets angry because he loves people like a mother would love her… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Fun. Wasn't that really the beauty of childhood? That you measured experiences by how much fun they were, not by how much… — Katherine Heiny Copy Share Image
